Course Syllabus

Instructor Bio

I am Samarendra Hedaoo, your Instructor for CS464 this quarter. Before I became an Instructor at the School of EECS, I worked at the Open Source Lab where we interacted with various Free and Open Source software groups daily about their infrastructure hosted at Oregon State. I also ran a small startup in 2015 in which we open sourced all the code we wrote. While I was in college we also made available the source for all the software we developed. My first job involved developing and maintaining a microfinance banking solution which was under an Open Source license.

Apart from all these Open Source-y things, I love cooking and reading.

I hope we have a great term together!

• Grading Policy (including Grade Weighting, Letter Grade and Late Policy)
• Course Communication Policy (including how to communicate with Free/Open Source Software Projects)
• Course Learning Objectives, Contents and List of Textbooks
• Course Calendar
• Calendar of Assignments, Quizzes and Project with due dates is available at the bottom of this page
• Syllabus Quiz

This syllabus is available here in a download-able PDF form.

Instructor Contact Information

I am available via:

• Email: samarendra.hedaoo@oregonstate.edu (When emailing me, put [CS464] in your subject title). Wait for a reply for 168 weekday hours.
• Office hours by appointment, via Google Hangouts. Sign up for any CS464 timeslot at https://tinyurl.com/samarendra-office-hours (Updated every week)

The primary mode of office hours by the TAs, unless otherwise indicated, will be the #general channel on Slack.  At the beginning and end of each office hour, the TAs will inform on Slack.

Slack Information

In addition to Canvas, we'll be using Slack for discussions. The Slack URL for this course is at http://class-cs464-sp19.slack.com. Make sure you join the #general channel for office hours/general class discussion.

For a detailed guide on setting up Slack, check the link at https://it.engineering.oregonstate.edu/slack.

Contacting the TAs

Times are in PDT.

Special office hour schedule for Week 4:

Tue: 5 to 6pm run by Shan and the GenderMag team

Wed: 5 to 6pm run by Hima and the GenderMag team

Thur: 3 to 4pm run by Abdullah and the GenderMag team

Office hours:

TA: Abdullah Azzouni

TA: Vijay Tadimeti

TA: Hima Gotlur

TA: Shan Gohar

All technical questions, questions about assignments/quizzes, anything that you learn in class, except if it's related to your grade, should be posted in the Discussion Forum so that all students benefit from it.

eCampus Resources These resources will be useful for all of your classes throughout the term... Library Information, Helpdesk Contact Info, Canvas Tech Support, etc.